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Capital Alliance and Staking Facilities are both German-hosted Solana validators on the Jito client at 0% base and 0% Jito MEV commission at epoch 971, but they diverge 42x on stake (156,342 SOL vs 6,615,054 SOL), on city (Hamburg vs Frankfurt), and on Wiz Score (99.63 vs 55.17) per Stakewiz — placing them at opposite ends of Stakewiz's quality distribution despite identical commission policy and country exposure.

At a glance

Metric Capital Alliance Staking Facilities
Active stake 156,342 SOL — 0.0101% of network (Stakewiz, epoch 971) 6,615,054 SOL — 0.428% of network (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
Wiz Score 99.63 (Stakewiz, epoch 971) 55.17 (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
30-day trailing skip rate 0.00% — vs 0.14% network median (Stakewiz, epoch 971) 0.063% — vs 0.14% network median (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
Base commission 0% (Stakewiz, epoch 971) 0% (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
Jito MEV commission 0% (jito_commission_bps: 0, epoch 971) 0% (jito_commission_bps: 0, epoch 971)
Total APY estimate 6.03% — 5.90% staking + 0.13% Jito MEV (Stakewiz, epoch 971) 5.96% — 5.83% staking + 0.13% Jito MEV (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
ASN + city AS48014 Albhost SH.P.K. — Hamburg, Germany (Stakewiz, epoch 971) AS9002 Retn Limited — Frankfurt, Germany (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
Software version 3.1.14 — version_valid: true (Stakewiz, epoch 971) Jito-Solana 0.822.30114 — version_valid: true (Stakewiz, epoch 971)
SFDP eligibility 0%/0% commission within both caps; 156,342 SOL external stake inside the matching-eligible bracket (1:1 up to 100,000 SOL match per current SFDP parameters); enrollment status not surfaced in Stakewiz cache (per solana.org/delegation-dashboard) 0%/0% commission within both caps; 6.62M SOL external stake above the 1,000,000 SOL ceiling — Foundation residual and matching withdrawn (per solana.org/delegation-criteria)

Where they're similar

  • Both run the Jito client (is_jito: true at epoch 971) and route MEV through the Jito Block Engine.
  • Both charge 0%/0% commission at epoch 971 — full on-chain pass-through; commission_score 20/20 for both.
  • Both are hosted in Germany — Hamburg and Frankfurt respectively.
  • Both post sub-network-median 30-day skip rates (0.00% vs 0.063%) against the 0.14% Stakewiz median.
  • Both flagged version_valid: true — no software-version penalty.
  • Both report 100% Stakewiz uptime; neither is delinquent.

Where they diverge

Stake position. Staking Facilities carries 6,615,054 SOL versus Capital Alliance's 156,342 SOL — a 42x gap. Staking Facilities sits above Stakewiz's above_halt_line marker (0 stake_weight_score and a -20 superminority penalty); Capital Alliance sits below it (14.75/15 stake_weight_score, no superminority penalty). For stakers prioritizing diversification away from larger stake concentrations, the 42x gap is the dominant single difference.

Wiz Score composition — why two German 0%/0% Jito-client validators land 44 points apart. Capital Alliance's 99.63 reflects maximum or near-maximum scores on every positive component, with sub-1-point decentralization trims (Hamburg city concentration -0.01, AS48014 ASN concentration -0.01). Staking Facilities's 55.17 reflects similar positive components but a -9.39 city-concentration penalty from Frankfurt (23.80% city share), a 0/15 stake_weight_score, and a -20 superminority penalty (Stakewiz components, epoch 971). The 44-point gap is driven by two factors: city placement and stake size — not performance.

City concentration profile. Capital Alliance is in Hamburg (0.02% city concentration per Stakewiz, epoch 971); Staking Facilities is in Frankfurt (23.80%) — the most concentrated city by Solana validator stake in this directory's snapshot. The gap is on the order of 1,000x. The SFDP infrastructure rule is anchored to ASN and individual data-center concentration rather than city, so neither validator is constrained by city placement under the May 1, 2026 SFDP rules.

ASN profile. Capital Alliance is on AS48014 (Albhost SH.P.K.), 0.02% network share. Staking Facilities is on AS9002 (Retn Limited), 0.14% share. Both ASNs are well below the 25% SFDP threshold; the gap is small in absolute and ratio terms compared to the city-concentration gap.

Operator self-description. Capital Alliance's Stakewiz description is promotional ("Boost SOL yields with Capital Alliance! Enterprise hardware, 0% Commission & MEV rewards for Max APY. Secure & Reliable"). Staking Facilities's is factual ("We invest in leading crypto networks & operate secure, performant, and highly available bare-metal infrastructure out of Germany"). The asymmetry is observable; the metrics in this comparison are surfaced independently of operator framing.

Tenure. Staking Facilities's first epoch with stake is 18 — operation spans approximately 953 epochs at epoch 971, among the longest-tenured operators in the directory. Capital Alliance's first epoch with stake is 550, spanning approximately 421 epochs (roughly 2.3 years). Tenure does not directly enter Stakewiz's composite.

TPU IP overlap signal. Capital Alliance's TPU IP at epoch 971 (64.130.57.226) also surfaces on LimeChain's Stakewiz record in this directory, carrying 4.36% of network TPU IPs per tpu_ip_concentration — an observable IP-routing layer signal, though the underlying ASNs (AS48014 vs AS8860 for LimeChain), cities, and identity accounts are distinct. Staking Facilities's TPU IP (94.158.242.125) does not appear in this overlap (0 tpu_ip_concentration).

Infrastructure

Capital Alliance is hosted on AS48014 (Albhost SH.P.K.) in Hamburg, Germany (53.55°N, 9.99°E) at TPU IP 64.130.57.226, running Jito client build 3.1.14. Albhost SH.P.K. is an Albanian-registered hosting provider operating server capacity in Hamburg; the ASN carries 0.02% of network stake.

Staking Facilities is hosted on AS9002 (Retn Limited) in Frankfurt, Germany (50.11°N, 8.68°E) at TPU IP 94.158.242.125, running Jito-Solana 0.822.30114. AS9002 carries 0.14% of network stake — well within the 25% SFDP threshold. Frankfurt is the most concentrated city by Solana validator stake (23.80% per Stakewiz city_concentration); the city-level concentration is the dominant decentralization signal on this validator's composite.

Neither validator runs Frankendancer at epoch 971. Both validators pass the May 1, 2026 SFDP infrastructure thresholds on ASN and data-center concentration cleanly.

Stake-pool inclusion and SFDP

Capital Alliance's 156,342 SOL of external stake sits inside the bracket where Foundation residual delegation and 1:1 stake matching (capped at 100,000 SOL match per current SFDP parameters) would apply if enrolled. The 0%/0% commission meets the SFDP caps. Enrollment status is not surfaced in the Stakewiz cache used here; live status is available at solana.org/delegation-dashboard.

Staking Facilities's 6,615,054 SOL external stake is above the 1,000,000 SOL Foundation-delegation ceiling — Foundation residual and matching are withdrawn regardless of the 0%/0% commission status. External stake is the dominant delegation source.

Stake-pool inclusion across Marinade SAM, the Jito Stake Pool, and SolBlaze is governed by each pool's independent selection criteria — Stakewiz does not surface pool inclusion in the API fields used here.

Trade-offs for stakers

  • A staker prioritizing Wiz Score as a composite (99.63 vs 55.17, epoch 971) → Capital Alliance.
  • A staker prioritizing diversification away from larger stake concentrations (0.0101% vs 0.428% of network) → Capital Alliance.
  • A staker prioritizing city diversification away from Frankfurt (23.80% vs Hamburg's 0.02%, epoch 971) → Capital Alliance.
  • A staker prioritizing operator tenure (953 vs 421 epochs at epoch 971) → Staking Facilities.
  • A staker prioritizing SFDP-eligible stake position where Foundation matching applies (156,342 SOL inside the matching range vs 6.62M SOL above the 1,000,000 SOL ceiling) → Capital Alliance, subject to enrollment status verifiable at solana.org/delegation-dashboard.
  • A staker prioritizing 100% commission pass-through on both base and Jito MEV — both are at 0%/0% at epoch 971; not a discriminator within this pairing.
  • A staker prioritizing an established, factual operator self-description over a promotional one → Staking Facilities.
  • A staker prioritizing the lowest 30-day trailing skip rate (0.00% vs 0.063%, epoch 971) → Capital Alliance, though both are well below the 0.14% network median.

Metrics sourced from Stakewiz cache at epoch 971, snapshot 2026-05-15. Skip rate, commission, and APY values update at epoch boundaries; verify against the live Stakewiz profile when citing for current decisions.